Did you catch a reporter holding up the New Orleans evacuation plan that apparently sat around in some file and was not put into action. All those people with no way out of the city, and airiel photo’s of the city’s fleet of school buses sitting mostly submerged in their parking lot? If someone locally had just thought, or maybe the president could have? Either would have required a bit of leadership ability. That makes the President less cabable in a crisis than a citizen of New Orlean who comandeered a bus to get 100 people out of the city.

But mainly, why aren’t you addressing Bush’s pathetic performance as ourt leader during this disaster? Can you not think of one way to defend him positively? Can you think of no way to show us an example of his leadership, rather than endless explanations of why it isn’t his fault? Because that’s what we’re talking about here.

“Well, if you’d have paid attention, you’d know by now that there were massive plans in place to prevent this disaster. The funding for these plans was revoked and the money was diverted to the Iraq war. Oh, and then, the La national guard was tapped for duty in Iraq, and a bunch of their amphibious vehicles went with them.”

My response was based on fact – even you can’t deny that. Your post was based on liberal fantasy and contained not one single element of truth.

Bush is not perfect. I would love a few words with him over the border crisis.

Sorry, I can’t hold him accountable for the disaster in New Orleans, nor can I hold him accountable for the sub-human acts of child rape, murder and shots fired at those who want to help. While the New Orleans crisis is a terrible tragedy, there is no excuse for the lack of planning and preparation – and that responsibility falls on the local government and city officials. If you live below sea level on the gulf – at least have a plan of what do to when a hurricane passes through. Several of them come that way every single year. It’s not as though they haven’t had at least 30 years to get organized.

Besides, hyperventilatingly relying on ALL CAPS is my job.

GIVE ME A FREAKING BREAK! Hurricanes have been coming in the same direction for the past FIVE HUNDRED YEARS AT LEAST.. long before the Iraq war – The city is built below sea level and those in charge only prepared for a Category 3 Max (The new Superdome barely survived it!) .. No one seems to question why Slumlord Nagin or those prior to him didn’t have two brain cells to rub together and entertain the possibility that Category 5 could turn their city into Atlantis!!! There were NEVER any MASSIVE PLANS in place to prevent the disaster. You CAN’T EVEN MINIMIZE THE DAMAGE OF ANYTHING OVER A 3 living in a fishbowl right on the GULF! Bush is responsible for this is he? What CONVOLUTED LOGIC. It’s actually amusing. The only thing more tragic than Katrina is if we rebuild and wait for another one to wipe them out all over again. Have we learned nothing? What a pitiful state of affairs for the civilized human race.

…having made adequate arrangements to deal with a disaster known to be not that unlikely?

Well, if you’d have paid attention, you’d know by now that there were massive plans in place to prevent this disaster. The funding for these plans was revoked and the money was diverted to the Iraq war. Oh, and then, the La national guard was tapped for duty in Iraq, and a bunch of their amphibious vehicles went with them.

So sorry, but this is Bush’s fuck up. And yes, fuck yes, that pampered cokehead should have leaped off of his lazy haunches the moment this shit started happening. It’s shameful that once again, a major fucked up and major disaster has went unattened for days, while he figures out how to cope.